ISic001098: I.Sicily inscription 001098
- ID
- ISic001098
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- unknown
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based upon the edition of Kaibel, who makes a number of assumptions about mistranscribed letters in Tardia
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No description is provided, but a statue base seems likely from the fragmentary text recorded.
- Object type
- unknown
- Material
- stone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The main text appears to consist of an honorific followed by at least four lines of what Kaible conjectures to be a verse couplet; a further three lines of letters are described as sitting to the right of the main text, in an uncertain relationship.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Lilybaeum
- Provenance found
- Recorded as 'in casa del S.D. Vincenzo Clavica", in a manuscript of Francesco Tardia (1732-1778).
Current location
lost
Date
Third, or more likely fourth century CE based upon the text. (AD 200 – AD 400)- Evidence
- textual-context
Text type
commentary
Potentially a public honorific, including a verse epigram. It is unclear what relationship the short (incomplete? fragmentary?) text inscribed alongside the main text has to the main text.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492719
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39102255
- PHI: 140581
- Printed editions
- G. Kaibel, Inscriptiones Graecae Siciliae et Italiae, additis graecis Galliae Hispaniae, Britanniae, Germaniae inscriptionibus, Inscriptiones Graecae consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae Editae. Volumen XIV., XIV (Berlin: Georgius Reimerus, 1890), at 14.0278
- R. Cagnat, J. Toutain, and P. Jouguet, Inscriptiones Graecae ad res Romanas pertinentes, 4 vols (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1906), at 500
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 2/17/2024